U.S. Olympic swimming star Ryan Lochte said he and three other U.S. swimmers were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning in Rio de Janeiro by armed men posing as police.

Lochte, 32, told NBC the quartet of swimmers were in a taxi coming home from a party at Club France when the cab pulled over and was accosted by a group of men who flashed a police badge and guns.

"They pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground — they got down on the ground," Lochte said. "I refused, I was like, 'We didn't do anything wrong, so — I'm not getting down on the ground.'

"And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'Whatever.' He took our money, he took my wallet — he left my cellphone, he left my credentials."

A U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman identified the other swimmers -- Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen -- and said all four were "safe and cooperating with authorities."

A spokesman for Club France, Hugo Sppezapria, told The Washington Post that Lochte and a friend left Club France around 3 a.m. and visited another "community."

"Why the hell would they do that?" Sppezapria said.

Brazilian police issued a statement that said no crime had been reported.

"The Civil Police were not notified about the robbery which an American swimmer suffered after leaving a party," the statement said. "The institution is investigating the incident, on the base of information circulated by the press.

"The American Consulate was contacted and said it had not been notified either. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that the U.S. Committee denied the crime. The investigation is in progress."

Lochte’s mom initially broke the news to Fox Sports Australia and USA Today on Sunday morning.

“I think they’re all shaken up,” Ileana Lochte told USA Today. “There were a few of them. No, they were just, they just took their wallets and basically that was it.”

That account was later confirmed by the spokesman of a friend of Lochte’s, The Washington Post reported.

International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams said the U.S. Olympic Committee initially denied the story, but it looked like that denial “is not correct.” Earlier, Adams had said the reports were “absolutely not true.” He had said his information came from the swimmer and the USOC.

Rio organizers spokesman Mario Andrada said he has been briefed on an “issue” involving the swimmer, but could not say if Lochte was held at gunpoint.

Lochte, who has 12 career Olympic medals and five gold medals, swam in two events at the Rio Games, winning gold in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/14/ryan-lochte-3-other-u-s-swimmers-robbed-in-brazil.html

Way to go Obama, people have been saying long before the Olympics the athletes should have security details........

Hopefully the culprits will be Lochte up a long time....

Did no one read up on the crime rate before they went there?
It's like saying "US OLympian gets shot in Compton (or Chicago)!"

It wasn't so bad 5 years ago?

You're blaming OBAMA for the fact that Brazilian crime is so infamous, that people going to visit there are warned to carry a fake cell phone and an extra wallet? and that comedians here perform routines, based on that fact?

You are REALLY getting desperate to blame stuff on a guy you irrationally hate.

not just obarry, ALL liberals...

Neither President Obama nor all liberals are to blame for what happened in Rio.

I don't think anyone has to REALLY get desperate to blame stuff on Obuma.
His many failures will be his legacy.

and your opinion is duly noted... but firmly disagreed with

It's the Mindset!

people seem to forget everything was bushes fault for the last 16 years, then wanna cry when obarry gets blamed for something just as stupid... liberals are hypocrites...

I'm not psychic but I KNEW that some of the athletes and visitors would be ripped off. It was expected.

It's just kind of like feeding the chickens. They have to eat too.

Speaking of Obama, I would be surprised but not shocked if he went to Rio to visit the Olympic Games and got ripped off. Those guys in Rio are good at what they do.

i don't think Rio is any different than anywhere else they've had an Olympics, people get ripped off everywhere in the world... did no athletes get ripped off when it was in LA or Georgia?

See, now, that's my point. Why make up stuff and make yourself look prejudiced by pretending to think that crime overseas is the responsibility of your local politicians?

This is exactly the kind of stuff that is going to get MORE people to ignore the actual failures.

Didn't any of you anti-Obama and anti-liberal people ever get any classic folk tales read to you as kids? Like the one about the little boy who cried wolf all the time?

One of the lessons of that one, was DON'T MAKE CRAP UP TO GET PEOPLE UPSET; THEY WILL REALIZE YOU DID, AND THEN WILL IGNORE YOU WHEN AND IF YOU FINALLY TELL THE TRUTH.

blah, blah,
blah, blah... the truth is, obarry lies, clinton lies, all liberals lie with them... so all your defense in this group of liars makes you a what?

Yup, he sure is. I said it long before they went, Obama should have sent adequate security to protect our athletes. This is the kinda of incident that terrorists fantasize about when they are humping their camels.

Some people read and think, and some refuse to. Show me where I did anything you accuse me of.

speaking of reading and thinking, what exactly did i accuse you of? it seemed more of a question to me...

hopfully~~~~they didn't get rap.......XD

luckily it wasnt american police,, could have ended up dead for being disobedient and all,,,,


but, anyway


same thing happened in tijuana,, like A THOUSAND TIMES,,lol,,,certain places you have to proceed more cautiously than others,, its incumbent upon travelers to make themselves aware of this before traveling